Sentences with phrase «immigration detention system»
in order to address ongoing concerns about the situation of children under Australia's immigration detention system.
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Updates on court processes and options for unaccompanied minors, including expedited dockets, U.S. juvenile immigration detention system, and new
An initial issue is whether Canada's immigration detention system is even legal.
National: The New York Times Magazine takes a deep look at what it's like to go through the «purgatory» of the immigration detention system.
She highlighted the deaths of 11 detainees in 2017 and argued that «the torment faced by many individuals in the government's immigration detention system runs counter to this country's proudest traditions».
She pledged to completely review the immigration detention system, and especially the role of multinational firms like G4S.
We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.
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In fourth place is an anonymous account from a guard in an immigration detention centre who explained why working in a system which detains people who have never committed a crime, keeps him up at night.
The nightmare that is detention is a product of a system which is under intense pressure to «do something» about immigration, but is legally unable to cut EU numbers and economically unwilling to cut too far into non-EU numbers.
On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.
After HGSE, I plan to continue working as an advocate for reform of the U.S. immigration system and the elimination of immigration detention centers.
When Soli, an illegal Mexican immigrant, is put in immigration detention, her 1 - year - old son, Ignacio, enters the foster care system.
Prior to joining the ILRC, Lena was a Soros Justice Fellow at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, where she supported local campaigns against ICE detainers, provided training and education on the detention and deportation system, and litigated constitutional rights cases related to ICE enforcement.
DWN is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to expose and challenge the injustices of the United States» immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes the rights and dignity of all persons.
CIVIC is a national immigration detention visitation network that is working to end U.S. immigration detention by monitoring human rights abuses, elevating stories, building community - based alternatives to detention, and advocating for system change.
Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) was a security certificate detention appeal that had been working its way through the legal system since 1992 and was decided in the appellants» favour.
«I've been practising in this area for a long time,» says Jackman, but it wasn't until she assisted in Ogiamien v. Ontario, 2016 ONSC 3080 — a case involving two inmates, one of them an immigration detainee since 2013, who successfully argued that their Charter rights were violated by lockdowns at a Milton jail last year — that she realized «there's no structure to the detention system.